Proof that while the other woman can sometimes sound sympathetic, there’s no getting around the fact that the guy is a heel, allowing his selfishness to wreck the lives at home and at the Lincoln Park Inn.

Country music is rife with the greatest cheating songs, but the one that’s running through my head now is Martina McBride’s “Phones Are Ringing All Over Town.” I love the frenzied way the desperate man tries to live in his denial that his wife has had enough of his cheating ways by calling everyone he can think of to try to find her. Sucker!

That signature tremble in Stewart’s voice works wonders here as he considers fooling around with a married woman. It’s part nervousness, part gaspy adrenaline, and of course very part self-loathing. Mmm, country.

Mine would probably be “She’s Not The Cheatin Kind” by Brooks & Dunn. BTW, I thought “Phones Are Ringin’ All Over Town” was about the woman, not cheating, but leaving and he’s calling anyone he can think of who might know where she went? Shows what I know! :)

Love me a good cheatin’ song. “Your Cheatin’ Heart” is probably the first one that comes to mind, but I’m also a big fan of Patty’s “Blame It On Your Heart,” Wynonna’s “I Saw the Light,” Sara’s “Cheatin’,” Shania’s “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under,” and of course there are a boatload of classic Reba songs to choose from.

“The Dark End Of The Street”, as done by Linda Ronstadt on her classic 1974 album Heart Like A Wheel. A much-beloved standard of late 1960s Southern soul music about two lovers who have to hide their affair in the shadows so that they don’t get caught, it’s done by Linda in a fashion that merges R&B, country, and rock and, shockingly, is virtually the only “cheating” song in her entire repertoire.

@Erik North: Because of its composition and original release during the Civil Rights Movement, I’ve always thought “The Dark End of the Street” was about an interracial relationship. I can totally see your interpretation, though

The interracial aspect of “Dark End” is always a possibility, though the only guys who might know are Dan Penn and Chips Moman, who wrote it. It is a much covered cheating song, as it has been done by Linda; James Carr; Aretha Franklin; and even the Flying Burrito Brothers (with Gram Parsons on lead vocals).

An excellent not-cheating song I immediately thought of was Gary Allan’s “No Man in His Wrong Heart.”
Johnny Cash’s “I walk the Line” , Gretchen Wilson”s “When I Think About Cheating” and Randy Travis’ “On the Other Hand” are also good not cheating songs.

I think Sara Evans’ “Cheating” is far superior to Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats”–not all women need resort to violence to get revenge!

LeeAnn Womack’s a bevy of good cheating songs I enjoy, yet I also admit I get a kick out of Taylor Swift’s “Picture to Burn” and “Should’ve Said No”.
James Otto’s “When a Woman’s Not Watching” and Garth Brooks’ “Thunder Rolls” are two more I like.

As far as fear of a partner cheating, both the original and Tim McGraw’s cover of “Suspicions” nails that vein. Also like Blake Shelton’s “I Don’t Care” for how he tries to be indifferent when he thinks shes cheating but is relieved to learn the other man was just her brother.